Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Studying “Mixed Race”: Reflections on Methodological Practice

    Studying “Mixed Race”: Reflections on Methodological Practice International Journal of Qualitative Methods Volume 13, Issue: 1 (2014) pages 347-361 DOI: 10.1177/160940691401300117 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada In this article, I reflexively consider how three experiences from conducting an interview project with Canadian young adults of mixed race can lead to…

  • Why Mixed-Race Americans Will Not Save The Country

    Americans like to fantasize that a mixed-race future will free them from the clutches of racism. But this illusion is incompatible with an America in which the presidential election was won by the candidate who ran a “Make America Great Again” campaign, which many critics have pointed out was widely heard as a call to…

  • Mixed Race Conference reflects on identity

    When Rudy Guevarra Jr. filled out identification forms in elementary school, he remembers never checking the provided boxes for race. Instead, he drew his own box, and wrote “Mexican-Filipino,” unable to choose one parent’s culture over the other.

  • What is Race? Just the Facts.

    What is Race? Just the Facts. The Nib 2017-02-24 Whit Taylor, cartoonist, writer, and educator from New Jersey … Read the entire article here.

  • The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, “Explorations in Trans (gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After Loving v. Virginia,” will bring together academics, activists, and artists from across the US and abroad to explore the latest developments in critical mixed race studies. The Conference will be held at The University…

  • Call for Papers: Power, Intimacy and the State: Mixed Families in Europe and Beyond

    Historically, mixed couples and people of mixed descent have been seen as a problem, in popular culture as well as in academic literature. ‘Ethnically’ and ‘racially’ mixed relationships were described as dominated by power imbalances and as devoid of love. This perspective was brought to bear upon relationships and marriages in colonial times and in…

  • Why are some black Africans considered white Americans?

    I always knew I was black. My childhood was the scent of coconut oil hair cream and the taste of bean pie after Friday prayers in a Bilalian mosque on Chicago’s south side. I knew the words to “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” and called Harold Washington my mayor, even though I lived in the suburbs…

  • What the #ThankYouLovings campaign gets wrong about interracial couples and the future of America

    What the #ThankYouLovings campaign gets wrong about interracial couples and the future of America Fusion 2016-12-09 Tahirah Hairston FOCUS FEATURES Last month, Loving, a biopic about Mildred and Richard Loving—the couple at the center of the Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia decision which struck down bans on interracial marriage in 1967—was released nationwide. June 12th,…

  • Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism

    Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism BuzzFeed 2017-02-10 Lauren Michele Jackson, BuzzFeed Contributor Chicago, Illinois A promotional still from A United Kingdom. Fox Searchlight Pictures Love may trump hate, but it can’t cure white supremacy. On January 23, Chrissy Teigen — model, “domestic goddess,” and number one John Legend troll — decided…

  • The Checkered Past of Brazil’s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series)

    The Checkered Past of Brazil’s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Jones Room, Woodruff Library The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2017-02-06, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Ruth Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor of Spanish Vanderbilt University, Nashville,…